Before I begin, let’s ask Wikipedia.org to describe the terms ‘unconference’, and ‘BarCamp.’ Unconference: An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of oganizers, in advance. (more…) BarCamp: more »

Hi Folks! As you can see, we’ve made some adjustments to the Tiger Beat Blog you all know and love. What began as some distaste with the CSS that MovableType generates, has become a full-blown redesign. We chose to move to WordPress for it’s administrative user interface, the price, and for the code it generates. more »

This week I’d like to present some of the tools I used in creating the soon-to-be-live, shiny, spanking-new Tiger Beat Blog. Blogging software: WordPress Bug tracker: 16Bugs Layout & design: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Coding: Macrodobe Dreamweaver 8 WordPress was wonderful to work with. Having no previous knowledge of it’s inner workings, after a week of more »

This is my first official post as the University News ‘behind the scenes web tech something something’ blogger. Every week I’ll be supplying our readers with either a behind-the-scenes look at my problems as a web developer here (and how I solve them), an interesting PR-related resource or both. :) Moving on to the post, more »

If you look past the gritty facade of prblogger.com, you’ll find a swelling archive of PR and marketing tips from one Stephen Davies. His latest post describes a PR site that uses “non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.” Like the immensly popular digg.com, New PR is host to user submitted, democratically featured links (the difference in this more »

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